Does sz make it so that you forget whole moments of what you did or make you remeber it differently than what happend. Cuz my mom said that I made a ruckus in the therapists office when I remeber it differently that was calm but my mom said I was aggressive but dont remeber that. Another time was when my uncle came over and I was in some sort of trance my mom has it on video and I remeber that that day happened differently then what was on the video. So I was wondering can sz make you do stuff that you dont remeber and make you remeber it differently?
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Nope. I remember everything I did while I was in psychosis. I was being controlled by voices and acting upon them. Though, I have only been in a psychotic state once or twice throughout my lifetime.
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Are u sure cuz my memories are almost gone and the voices are saying that the times that I dont remember is cuz they have the power to clone me and take me out of my reality to torture me
Well, maybe being in a psychotic state affects certain schizophrenics differently? For me, I remember most of what happened.
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Another thing that happend to me is my mom called the hospital one day and they where taking me on a stretcher and my mom said that I was eating an apple but I dont remeber the apple. The voices of coarse saying my mom is lying cuz she’s not my mom
Well…if you watched a video of it, that is iron proof that your memory is unreliable. It’s not just people in psychosis that have unreliable memories. A perfectly normal person’s memories can be altered, things remembered differently.
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Sounds like a delusion or hallucination.
There should be cameras in all rooms of a psychiatric ward and hospitals.
When I was off meds I was totally out of it and couldn’t tell what were fake memories and real.
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Yes. When I’ve had psychosis I’ve had what I can only describe as time lapses.
One I’ll never forget is sitting down to a psychology lesson (50 minutes) then next thing I knew everyone was standing up and leaving. I asked my friend if I fell asleep and he assured me I wasn’t so I have no idea what actually happened other than a memory lapse.
I would also say there are times where I don’t feel like Im being aggressive but I am told by others that I was, and I believe them. This is less about forgetting what happened but a general lack of self awareness/insight…
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I dont only get time lapses but remember the the ordeal in a completely different way or remember what happen differently
I think everyone here has had sound reasoning and opinions. Personally, I have had memory issues since long before sz diagnosis. But oddly I do remember a lot of my psychosis, but not much of my childhood for example. I think it’s important to remember that though we are all sz, we are still different people, so our brains will work differently in some ways.
I can’t remember much during my last month or weeks of college. I just remember sleeping a lot in my bed and then my dad picking me up to go home. It’s all blocked. I look at childhood photos and realize I was there and existed but don’t recognize it as me, consciousnessly speaking. I know it is me but it’s like I didn’t exist back then. It’s hard to explain. I guess it’s the schizophrenia…
schizophrenia makes me think I live in a simulation where those things were just artificial memories and not real anymore. I asked my mom if she remembers perfectly and she does. I don’t know. I sometimes feel I’m either a human clone or my mom has a chip in her head. These are all lies, apparently, caused by schizophrenia…some of these are my theories or reasons on why I cannot remember or recall living such a life before 2011.
Me to my voices make me think that iam in a simulation and asleep in hell and when I wake up iam gonna get tortured and humiliated beyond words but iv been making progress iv feel like iam geting my mind back in a way and can sort of think but it’s in other peoples voices as least it’s something. I feel like all my memories are gone I cant even remeber what happened yesterday and remember my mom’s face differently and they tell me it’s not my mom but I know it’s all lies they keep telling me that iam not gonna see my mom ever again but I know it’s not true
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It’s bad 131313
Yes loss of memory, time and surroundings are one of key Schizophrenia symptoms. Especially when you becoming or are psychotic
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@Jesse25, The vast majority of my psychosis was very traumatic to me so, I don’t remember most of it. When a person is severely abused as a kid, as I was, their psyches tend to leave their bodies and drift afloat somewhere above the scene of the trauma. As this happens, the memories of the event is lost. As I was continually abused as a youngster, I tended to use this coping method frequently during traumatic periods such as incest for example. This caused me to forget the specific situation.
As I grew older, I still used this coping method of forgetfulness whenever I experienced any trauma like psychosis, for example. And that’s why I remember only bits and pieces of my psychotic experience over my lifetime. I am diagnosed sza.
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Sorry to hear that. The events that I forgot weren’t traumatic
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I’m glad to hear that. 15151515151515
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